Il palazzo di Sassuolo. Delizia dei duchi d'Este

Grafiche Step Editrice, 2004. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 11x1x11. In Italian. 2004 Grafiche Step Editrice (Parma, Italy), 11 1/2 x 12 inches tall black cloth hardcover in publisher's unclipped dust jacket, white lettering to front cover and spine, black endpapers, copiously illustrated with full color photographs and reproductions of artwork, 226 pp. Very slight soiling and rubbing to covers, with the mildest bit of bumping to the fore edge of the front board and lower tip of the rear board. Otherwise, a near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - in a like dust jacket which is nicely preserved and displayed in a clear archival Brodart sleeve. Note that this is a heavy and oversized book, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~RCL~ [5.0P] The definitive pictorial of the Ducal Palace in Sassuolo, a Baroque villa located in the town of Sassuolo, thirty minutes outside Modena, northern Italy. The palace, also known as 'Delizia' (delight) for its architecture enhanced by fountains and surrounded by gardens, for the beauty of its interior decorations and for its fine location in the broad valley of Secchia, stands as a veritable gem of northern Italian Baroque. The palace is best known for its highly decorated interior frescoes (1638-1656) by the French Este court painter Jean Boulanger, as well as several perspectival ceilings by Ottavio Vivani, Giacomo Cialdieri, Angelo Michele Colonna, Agostino Mitelli, Baldassare Bianchi and Giovanni Giacomo Monti. Lattanzio Maschio and Luca Colombi were also invited by Boulanger to work on the palace stucco decoration. Giovanni Lazzoni, Nicolas Régnier, Salvator Rosa, and Ludovico Lana also contributed to the palace's art collection.